Mets’ Jenrry Mejia Is Said to Deny Doping Claims

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Jenrry Mejia in 2014. He has failed three tests for performance-enhancing drugs in less than a year.CreditCreditUsa Today Sports/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

By Tim Rohan

Feb. 13, 2016

Each time Mets pitcher Jenrry Mejia has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, he has declined to discuss the results or has maintained his innocence. Even after his third failed test in less than a year, which was announced Friday and resulted in a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball, Mejia appears to be sticking to the message that he has not used P.E.D.s.

Peter Greenberg, Mejia’s agent, indicated on Saturday that Mejia would not make an official statement. But on Friday, Héctor Gómez, who described himself on his Twitter page as the sports editor at Z101, a radio station in the Dominican Republic, posted on Twitter a few quotations he attributed to Mejia.

“It’s not like they say,” Mejia said in Spanish, according to one of Gómez’s Twitter posts. “I am certain I did not use anything.”

Another of Gómez’s posts quoted Mejia as saying that he planned to appeal the suspension when he was allowed to do so in a year, no matter how bleak his chances might seem.

Even if Major League Baseball’s commissioner, Rob Manfred, accepts the appeal, the suspension calls for Mejia, a reliever, to sit out for at least two years.

“I have a lot of faith,” Mejia said, according to one of Gómez’s Twitter posts. “I have to clear my name.”

Maira Garcia contributed reporting.

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